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Anora, The Substance and the Gazes We Choose To Believe

Our Beauty Editor rips through the debate with her eyes wide open.

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Mar 26, 2025
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[Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead.]

There is a scene from The Substance that I can’t get out of my head. Demi Moore’s character—Elizabeth Sparkle—is getting ready to go on a date she arranged with an old acquaintance she ran into by chance. It is clear to the viewer that she considers this guy to be beneath her. Definitely not the type of man she would even…

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